While American leftists protest the U.S. capture of Venezuelan dictator and narcoterrorist Nicholás Maduro, Venezuelans both at home and abroad rejoice. Unlike U.S. lefties, Venezuelans know from hard experience how empty collectivism’s promises are.
The Jew-hating, jihad-loving, anti-American, socialist Mamdani intoned, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Only people who have never lived in a socialist, collectivist society would believe that kind of nonsense. Venezuelans who had to escape their country or who are finally hoping to be free of Communism after Maduro’s capture would not fall for that lie, and they are trying to warn Americans not to fall for it either.
While leftists turned out in American cities to scream their outrage that the Trump administration captured Maduro and arraigned him in New York today, Venezuelans from Caracas to Madrid to Miami to Buenos Aires have turned up in much larger numbers for a very different reason — to celebrate. In some places, Venezuelans have tried to argue with the leftists, to help them understand how horrible life is in a socialist country.
Outside the New York federal court where Maduro was arraigned, culturally imperialist morons gathered to call for Maduro’s release. They know best, because they’re white leftists, so they’re superior. “You are not from my country!” shouted a Venezuelan repeatedly at them. Another Venezuelan confronted a masked American with a Venezuelan flag. “You carry a f***ing Venezuelan flag, you’re not even from there. You idiot. Why don’t you talk to some real people from Venezuela and see how they feel?”
BREAKING NOW: Intense confrontation outside Manhattan federal court, Venezuelan exile unloads on pro Maduro protesters:
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) January 5, 2026
"You are not from my country! What part of Venezuela you are?!"pic.twitter.com/8gvWgG413Z
Protestors also clashed in Times Square, Venezuelans angry at the ignorant leftists and their support for a dictator who killed and jailed so many of his own people while fueling the drug war.
Actual Venezuelans confront protesters in Times Square.
— Spitfire (@RealSpitfire) January 3, 2026
Paid protesters and getting hit with reality.
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This man spent time in a Venezuelan jail and is justly incensed that white Americans are telling him to be sad instead of excited that his country’s dictator has been removed. As he said, they really don’t want the people of Venezuela to be free.
BILLBOARD MATERIAL ! Kaboom 💥 A Venezuelan man decimates payed protesters ! “These people DON'T want Venezuela to be free. These people is just here because they want to attack DONALD TRUMP and use the name of MY COUNTRY, MY PEOPLE, without caring who has died and SUFFERING… pic.twitter.com/8b42ER7TnF
— VeBee🇺🇸✝️ (@VeBo1991) January 5, 2026
ABC13Houston aired the excited reactions of local Venezuelans to Maduro’s capture. One woman talked about how it had seemed as if the socialist tyranny in Venezuela was “never going to end,” but now it will. A man affirmed, “I think this is the start to the best option…the people is awaiting this moment.”
In South Florida, huge crowds of Venezuelans held parties in the streets. “This means EVERYTHING to us,” said a young woman. “Since I have been born we have been living under an abusive dictatorship. This feels like the light at the end of the tunnel.” Others talked about living under decades of corruption and oppression without hope of change. All of a sudden, that changed. But entitled leftists are sure they know better because they read CNN.
🚨 JUST IN: Democrats are furious after Venezuelans in South Florida wore MAGA HATS and sang the Star Spangled Banner in celebration of what President Trump has accomplished
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 5, 2026
ABSOLUTELY EPIC! 🔥🇺🇸🇻🇪
"This means EVERYTHING to us. Like the light at the end of the tunnel."… pic.twitter.com/SqnxDJ0GIE
Valerie Stramwasser, who is Jewish and Venezuelan, compared the tone-deaf leftist lectures about Maduro’s downfall to the willful misunderstanding of the persecution of Jews. “People who are not Venezuelan, who did not grow up under [Hugo] Chávez and Maduro, who did not lose their country, their safety, and their future, feel entitled to explain Venezuela to us,” Stramwasser observed.
She continued, “I am 37 years old. I do not remember a Venezuela before Chávez. I had to flee my country. I had to rebuild my life from scratch. My children do not know Venezuela…Empathizing with the wrong side because it sounds compassionate does not make you moral. It makes you historically ignorant.”
The fools protesting in support of Maduro — many of them probably paid protesters, since they all have the same printed signs — fell for the Mamdani lie about the warmth of collectivism. They believe they are so enlightened about socialism that they have to commiserate with the Venezuelan people on losing a socialist tyrant to a capitalist government. The Venezuelans know better from experience.
